One factor that could be contributing to the rise: a bullish analyst meeting yesterday by Agilent (A), which has a small business that makes network test equipment.
He said the move saves Google money and makes the network easier to test and manage.
The Migrants' Rights Network said the test was "like an entry examination for an elite public school".
What started as a 150-person mobile test network in Baltimore has grown to a 5.3 billion-subscriber worldwide market.
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The network will reportedly test other original content efforts during the coming season.
In London, O2 has launched a test network covering various parts of the centre of town, and soon out to Canary Wharf and the Docklands.
Once Street gives the go-ahead, Earthlink will begin deploying its 15-square-mile test network in parts of North and South Philly, after which point the company will have the option of backing out should they be unhappy with the results of the trial.
The Bitcoin Foundation mission leads to the early specific goals of financially sponsoring the efforts of the core development team, funding core infrastructure such as a test network and a DNS seed node, publishing a set of best practices for bitcoin integration, coordinating responses to business and media inquiries, and organizing an annual bitcoin conference with the first one being held in Silicon Valley.
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The car's juice showed up as a blip on PJM's network, but the test showed the concept is at least workable.
Two days before they were set to ship, HSN's inspectors discovered that the gift set broke apart when dropped from waist height, failing the network's drop test.
In the month of December began the deployment of the network to install the first test antenna.
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Officials have expressed concern in the past that the Iraq war is providing a theater for al Qaeda to train insurgents and test the terror network's capabilities.
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In a recent test on a commercial network, using superconducting filters increased that network's capacity by half.
London's transport network has passed its first big test of the Games: the combination of commuters and Games spectators during Monday's two rush hours.
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Gill says San Francisco, in turn, can be viewed as a proxy for the whole country since the test was more about network capabilities than network coverage.
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In another demonstration, the Belkin router and network card were put to the test directly against Netgear 's (nasdaq: NTGR - news - people ) 802.11g products.
This marks the second time that Ohio State has been featured in 3D by ESPN as the team's game against USC on Sept. 9, 2009, served as a test telecast for the network.
"We beta-test things on the Abilene network, " says John Jameson, director of research education markets for Juniper.
By tapping the words "check speed, " a built-in speed test gets results for your network and tells you what speed would work best.
He was slapped with the suspension in December after the drug test, which the sports network ESPN, citing unidentified sources, said showed high levels of testosterone.
The legacy carriers could identify a few local areas in which to test transition to an all IP network free of outmoded regulations and see if doing so inadvertently interferes with normal market behavior.
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For CBS, the big test comes this fall, when the network takes its turn hosting the Emmy awards.
In a matter of months, the five test episodes were back on the site and the network has been streaming the series ever since.
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My test model was running on the T-Mobile network and even indicated that it was using super-fast LTE, which T-Mobile is still building out, in some areas.
Under the test bed, the new registrars will hook into Network Solutions' database in order to sell a pool of names in the .com, .net and .org domains.
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Until then, check a side-by-side test done by the cats over at Animation World Network pitting a prototype Alexa against a RED One equipped with a new MysteriumX sensor and software.
The most prevalent ads throughout the company's beta test were short video spots from Esurance, but the network will also provide contextual and text ads.
Carriers routinely test devices before they certify them to work on their wireless network.
It persuaded one company, Semafore Pharmaceuticals, to test a drug in myeloma by offering it access to the network.
Liu said that while testing the Buy With Friends feature, Facebook has found that more than 50% of test users chose to share a purchase they made on the social network with their friends.
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